Current Events

Home Smart Home

8. March – 21. April 2024
Solo Show, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg

For the exhibition “Home Smart Home,” Aram Bartholl equips the tower of the Kunstverein Rotenburg with a variety of home surveillance cameras. In addition to hidden cameras, known as “Nanny Cams,” Bartholl also experiments with 360° “Lightbulb” cameras equipped with lights and speakers. The market for surveillance cameras in the private sphere has grown tremendously in recent years. The desire for control over one’s own private space is reflected in this development and is part of the digitally driven society marked by a loss of trust.

The Art Tower, 4 Floors – 122 Steps – 24 m.
Originally slated for demolition in the mid-90s to make way for parking space for the “Ronolulu” leisure pool, the disused fire brigade water tower was on the chopping block. However, Peter Möhl, the former managing director of the municipal utilities and thus the owner of the tower, envisioned a meaningful repurposing. Together with the vice chairman of the Art Association, architect Jürgen Lohmann, the idea was born to convert the tower into a gallery.

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Decoding the Black Box

27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

Die Ausstellung Decoding the Black Box bringt Künstlerinnen und Künstler zusammen, die Licht in diesen dunklen Raum und die Prozesse werfen, die sich in ihm ereignen. Sie legen dabei nicht nur die Funktionsweisen digitaler Technologien wie beispielsweise von künstlicher Intelligenz offen, sondern visualisieren zugleich die Auswirkungen, die sie auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Realität und unser In-der-Welt-Sein haben. Während sie die ökonomischen und machtpolitischen Strukturen der digitalen Technologien und insbesondere des Internets transparent machen, zeigen sie Gegenentwürfe für eine dezentralisierte, humanere und demokratischere Nutzung ebendieser auf.

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Upcoming Events

Urban Art Biennale

26. April – 10. November 2024
Biennial, Völklinger Hüttte, Saarbrücken

Recent Events

Killyourphone workshop

13. April 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Stitch Incoming!!

25. March 2024
Curatorial, Speed Show at Web Cafe, Athens

Monday 25th of March, 7:00 PM at Web Cafe, Eptanisou 40, 113 61 , Kypseli – Athens

with:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić , Ingrid Hideki, Joanna Bacas, Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou, Marina Gioti, Marsunev, Nadja Buttendorf, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos

Speed Show lands in Greece, the country of souvlaki, the sun (yes we can claim that they originated a celestial body), ouzo, feta, an enormous financial debt. Currently, Greece is also trending for all the wrong reasons namely, gentrification, queerphobia, state crimes and more dystopic incidents.
As 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves amidst a whirlwind of confusion, bombarded with a cacophony of online horrors to consume, an attention span further abbreviated by TikTok’s algorithm and the barrage of incoming stitches.

Stitches Incoming serve as a conduit for creators to engage and converse, traversing from one topic to the next. They have evolved into a new social fabric, weaving connections within an ever-shifting digital and physical landscape while also serving as a testament to personal and collective traumas, both past and present.

What unites the participating digital artists? Perhaps everything and nothing simultaneously… Departing from the traditional Speed Show setup, where artworks are carefully stacked inside internet cafe computers, and drawing inspiration from the structure of TikTok stitches, each piece seems to propel the conversation forward, or perhaps uses the next as a springboard for its own narrative.

Stitch this and stitch that, we have everything you ever wanted (maybe) ! Are we stuck in an infinite loop of sh*tposting, valuable content, the highlight of social issues, personal and interpersonal experiences?
Maybe! Come and find out…

More info on Speed Shows at https://speedshow.net/stitch-incoming/

Killyourphone workshop

23. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

9. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Blog Archive for Month: March 2010

Mission Accomplished!

March 20, 2010


With this awesome Twitter Adventure Jonah won the Twitter-bitly duell. (stats) Love it!

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Point & Next

March 19, 2010

Chat Roulette Adventure Game from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

‘Chat Roulette Adventure’ is a first result of the ‘Point & Click‘ workshop I gave last week at KHM – Acadamy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. In a four-day workshop we ran a hand full of experiments on how to encounter Public Space in computer game adventure style. Most of the interventions took place outside  in the City of Cologne. At night we adapted part of the show for the ‘public space’ of  Chat Roulette …
Update: Pics from the whole workshop week!
Thx to all participants and thx Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig for the invitation!
Stay tuned for more documentation!

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24 h

March 18, 2010


I was told parts of the Netherlands have a 24h graffiti removal policy for whole cities (paid by taxes). Imagine this happend to Berlin … (found on Choinerstr. Berlin)

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Narcissism vs. Utility

March 17, 2010


Interesting thoughts on narcissism vs. utility on the net by Brad O’Neill. (Napkin drawings are the best!)
pic by Brad O’Neill
via jamiew

Side Quest

March 16, 2010


(found at Gerichtstr. Berlin)

German Pranksters Attack Google Car at CeBIT !!!

March 14, 2010


Haha …this is so good!!! Let’s see how much more desperate they‘ll get.
Check also the Google Street View Car how to of fffff.at
Pic by woozie2010

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Point & Click

March 12, 2010


The Point and Click workshop I gave at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne – KHM this week was great fun! Stay tuned for more documentation!
Thx to all participants and thx Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig for the invitation!

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Foot In The Door

March 10, 2010


( KHM has a high security RFID door accees system, found at Lab3, Cologne)

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Random Screen (v.3)

March 5, 2010

Short video docu on “Random Screen” v.3 2009  (finally HD)

Random Screen (v.3) from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

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Calendar Update

March 3, 2010

upcoming / current ( or just over )

17.9.10-10.1.11
ShadowDance
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
shortlist: Vito Acconci (US), Charles Atlas (US), Dirck van Baburen (NL), Aram Bartholl (DE) (0,16), Christian Boltanski (FR), Jim Campbell (US), David Claerbout (BE) , Haim Elmoznino (IL), Ellis Gallagher (US), Hanna von Goeler DE), Mella Jaarsma (NL), William Kentridge (ZA), Germaine Kruip (NL), Couzijn van Leeuwen (NL), Gabriel Lester (NL), Zilla Leutenegger (CH), Mark Lewis (UK), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX), Munch & Furukawa (DE & JP) , Serge Onnen (FR), Lotte Reiniger (DE), Viviane Sassen (NL), Tomas Schats (NL), Hyo-Jung Seo (KR), Teresa Serrano (MX), Conrad Shawcross (UK), Sam Taylor-Wood (UK), The One Minutes (NL), Dimitri Vangrunderbeek (BE), Kara Walker (US), Diet Wiegman (NL)
22.5. – 8.8.2010
Locate Me
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
with: Aram Bartholl (Map, Silver Cell), Gaspar Battha, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Julius von Bismarck, Yasmine Chatila, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Robert Heel, Dirk Holzberg, Annja Krautgasser, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Desiree Palmen, Pony Pedro (Mark Thomann, Sebastian Wagner, Franziska Werner), Willi Sengewald/TheGreenEyl, Eva Alexandra Stueben, tat ort (berlinger & Fiel), The Product (Patrick Kochlick & Dennis Paul), Alexa Wright/Alf Linney, Jens Wunderling
15.-18.4.10
Prix Ars Electronica, Category: Digital Communities jury board
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
with: Beatrice Achaleke (AT), Aram Bartholl (DE), Isaac Mao (CN)
Tiago Peixoto (BR), David Sasaki (US)
8.-11.3.10
Point and Click workshop
Academy of Media Arts, KHM, Cologne, Germany
Eine performative Intervention im öffentlichem Raum mit dem Künstler Aram Bartholl, organisiert von Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig. Die Ergebnisse des Workshops werden auf der Ausstellung zur Computerspiel-Konferenz “Next Level” vom 20. bis 21. April 2010 in Köln gezeigt.
27.02 – 14.03.10
You Turn Me On And On And On
Ebassy Gallery Edinburgh, UK
with: Aram Bartholl (4A), Simon Biggs, Benjamin Dembrowski, Michael Demers, Olle Essvik, Claire Evans, Martin Kohout, Margot Krasojevic, The Ludic Society, Kelly Mark, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aaron Oldenburg, Marisa Olson, Katie Paterson, Antoine Schmitt, Nathan Shafer, Jason Sloan, Simon Yuill, Gregoire Zabe
19.-22.2.2010
Gamezone Desingel 2010
Desingel, Antwerpen, Belgium
with: Crew: W (double u), Phil Worthington: Shadow Monsters, Gordan Savicic: Insert Coin & Chakramat, Lammer & Savicic: Biopong, Gottfried Haider: Hidden in plain sight, Joan Leandre: In the name of kernel, JODI : Compositeclub2.0++, Aram Bartholl: First Person Shooter, Aram Bartholl: de_dust, Philip Lammer: Armagetron
22.10.09-8.5.2010
Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Utah, USA
with: Kjellgren Alkire, Valerie Atkisson, Aram Bartholl (1H, First Person Shooter), Dawoud Bey, Rebecca Campbell, Ben Coonley, Doug DuBois, Hasan Elahi, Endocrom, Feng Mengbo, Harrell Fletcher, Douglas Gordon, Mary Henderson, Oliver Herring, Amy Jorgensen, Mark Khaisman, Jeff Larsen, Nikki S. Lee, Michael McGlothlen, Mike McGlothlen, Julie Moos, Takashi Murakami, Julian Opie, Lydia Panas, Rachel Papo, Przemyslaw Pokrycki, Nate Ronniger, Lincoln Schatz, Michael Scoggins, Andrew Sexton, Amy Sillman, Beat Streuli
… past events

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